Fredrik Berglund

Fredrik Berglund
Berglund in the IF Elfsborg jersey in summer 2008
Personnel
birthday	March 21, 1979
place of birth	Borås ,  Sweden
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
1986-1992	Byttorps IF
1993-1995	IF Elfsborg
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1995-2001	IF Elfsborg	118 (40)
2001-2003	Roda JC Kerkrade	33 0(5)
2003	→  IF Elfsborg  (loan)	15 0(4)
2004	Roda JC Kerkrade	9 0(0)
2004-2006	Esbjerg fB	75 (43)
2006-2007	FC Copenhagen	29 0(7)
2007-2008	IF Elfsborg	35 (11)
2009–	→  Stabæk Fotball  (loan)	0 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2001-2006	Sweden	12 0(2)
1 Only league games are given. As of April 1, 2009 2 As of April 1, 2009

Fredrik Berglund (born March 21, 1979 in Borås ) is a Swedish football player . The striker , who made several appearances in the Swedish national team and won the Thai King's Cup with her in 2001 , was the Allsvenskan top scorer in the 2000 season , won the Swedish Cup with IF Elfsborg a year later and was Danish champion in 2007 with FC Copenhagen .

Career

Start of career and national team debut

Berglund started playing football at Byttorps IF . In 1993 he moved to the youth department at IF Elfsborg. For the club from his hometown Borås, he began his professional career two years later in the second-rate Division 1 Södra . As a season winner he succeeded with the team in the following season of promotion to the Allsvenskan. After years in the lower midfield of the Swedish House of Lords, he helped him to fifth place in the table with his 18 goals this season, with which he grabbed the title of top scorer ahead of Marcus Allbäck and Gustaf Andersson .

Before the beginning of the following season, Berglund was appointed to the squad of the Swedish national team for the first time. In the 4-1 victory over the Thai national team on February 10, 2001, he was able to enter the goalscorer list like the equally debuting Stefan Selakovic , for whom he was substituted in the 64th minute of the game, when the goal made him 3-1 succeeded. A week later he crowned his third international game by winning the King's Cup. In May of that year he reached the cup final with the club. With a success in the penalty shootout over the league rivals AIK , in which he was on the field until the 113th minute of the game and was substituted for Niklas Gudmundsson , he won his first club title.

Stations abroad in the Netherlands and Denmark

In the summer of 2001, Berglund moved to Roda JC Kerkrade in the Netherlands . In the honor division , however, he could not assert himself in the long term because he could not get along with the 4-3-3 system practiced at the Dutch club . After two seasons in which he mostly had to sit on the bench at the start of the game, he moved back to Sweden on loan. At his first professional station, IF Elfsborg, he was used regularly and scored four goals. After the end of the season in Sweden in the autumn, he returned to Roda in the Netherlands, but was again unable to establish himself at the club.

In spring 2004 Berglund changed clubs again. He made a successful debut with his new employer Esbjerg fB in the super league and shone as a multiple goalscorer and preparer. In the end he reached third place in the table with the club and thus qualified for the UEFA Intertoto Cup and the newly created Royal League . In the following season he proved his scoring risk and finished second in the scorers list with one less goal behind Steffen Højer from Odense BK , who scored 20 goals this season. After the end of the season, several Swedish newspapers reported Berglund's move to Turkish club Gençlerbirliği , but the player ultimately stayed in Denmark. After another season, in which he was again one of the top scorers in the league with 14 goals this season, he announced a move within Denmark.

Berglund signed a four-year contract with league rivals FC Copenhagen. In the service of his new club, Berglund set a new league record on November 26, 2006, when he scored his 50th league goal in the 93rd league game in Denmark and thus undercut Erik Bo Andersen's previous record , which stood at 97 games. At the end of the season in which he played for his club in the Champions League , he became Danish champion.

Return to Sweden

Despite the success in Denmark, Berglund returned to Sweden in the summer of 2007. For a transfer fee of around 10 million Swedish kronor , he joined his old club IF Elfsborg, with whom he signed a contract valid until the end of 2011. By the end of the season he was used eleven times by coach Magnus Haglund and was able to score three goals. In the 2008 season , his first full season in Sweden since the top scorer season in 2000, he wavered between starting eleven and bench. Nevertheless, he was used in 24 of the 30 season games and was able to mark eight hits.

Shortly before the end of the transfer period on April 1, 2009, Berglund moved abroad again on loan and joined the reigning Norwegian champion Stabæk Fotball , where he plays in the Tippeligaen at the side of his compatriot Daniel Nannskog in the storm.

Web links

• Fredrik Berglund in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "King's Cup: 4-1 för Sverige i första match" - match report at svenskfotboll.se (accessed on January 16, 2009)
2. ↑ "Elfsborg vann cupdrama" - game report at svenskfotboll.se (accessed on January 16, 2009)
3. ↑ "" Bella "Sagar tränaren i Roda" - Article at dn.se (accessed 16 January 2009)
4. ↑ "Succédebut i Esbjerg för Fredrik Berglund" - article at dn.se (accessed on January 16, 2009)
5. ↑ "Fredrik Berglund bliver i Esbjerg" - article at dr.dk (accessed on January 16, 2009)
6. ↑ "Fredrik Berglund klar för Köpenhamn" - article at hd.se  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on January 16, 2009)  
7. ↑ "Fredrik Berglund klar för Elfsborg" - article at svenskafans.com (accessed on January 16, 2009)
8. ↑ fotbollsexpressen.se: "Fredrik Berglund lånas ut till Stabaek" ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed April 1, 2009)